-Wolflarsen on the "How Many Of Us Are There thread.
I saw one once, from afar. He was getting into his car and I was on foot. I saw him from across a mall parking lot and I shouted as loudly as I could to wait just a moment because I'd like to talk to him. He heard me, hesitated a moment as he looked in my direction, and proceeded to continue getting into his car. I of course shouted more loudly, waving my arms around while running as fast as I could through the lot to catch him before he left. He, obviously didn't want to chat though, because he peeled off out of the parking lot pretty quickly, almost hitting another car in the process. Shortly thereafter I was approached by mall security and asked to leave.... er... escorted off the property.
Another time at a hotel I was walking past a door on my way to my room, when I caught the scent of latakia emanating from behind the door. How wonderful, I thought, as it was another chance to meet another pipe smoker! So I knocked...
"Who is it?"
"Hi, my name's Anthony, I'd like to talk to you about...."
"Go away!"
"I just thought, sir, you'd like to talk with me about..."
"I don't need no pamphlets, and I don't need to go to your church! Go away!!"
"But, sir, I really only... I thought perhaps, you might like to...." Of, course at this time, security was tapping me on the shoulder and shortly thereafter escorting me off the property.
Meeting pipe smokers is hard!
Ah.. the pipe smoker in the wild. More elusive than the famed sasquatch, or yeti, or the Loch Ness Monster, or leprechauns and unicorns! Even more elusive than a leprechaun riding a Loch Ness monster doing battle against a Sasquatch riding a unicorn while a Yeti watches on and laughs while drinking a Himalayan beer from the skull of a dragon.I've met exactly zero pipe smokers in my 40 years on planet earth. If it weren't for this forum it would feel like I'm the only one.
I saw one once, from afar. He was getting into his car and I was on foot. I saw him from across a mall parking lot and I shouted as loudly as I could to wait just a moment because I'd like to talk to him. He heard me, hesitated a moment as he looked in my direction, and proceeded to continue getting into his car. I of course shouted more loudly, waving my arms around while running as fast as I could through the lot to catch him before he left. He, obviously didn't want to chat though, because he peeled off out of the parking lot pretty quickly, almost hitting another car in the process. Shortly thereafter I was approached by mall security and asked to leave.... er... escorted off the property.
Another time at a hotel I was walking past a door on my way to my room, when I caught the scent of latakia emanating from behind the door. How wonderful, I thought, as it was another chance to meet another pipe smoker! So I knocked...
"Who is it?"
"Hi, my name's Anthony, I'd like to talk to you about...."
"Go away!"
"I just thought, sir, you'd like to talk with me about..."
"I don't need no pamphlets, and I don't need to go to your church! Go away!!"
"But, sir, I really only... I thought perhaps, you might like to...." Of, course at this time, security was tapping me on the shoulder and shortly thereafter escorting me off the property.
Meeting pipe smokers is hard!